Explore historical mystery books—unraveling crime, intrigue, and hidden secrets in gripping stories set in the Baltimore’s early 20th-century past
The following is a reprint of my 2021 article from Mystery & Suspense titled “Supernatural Detectives: Ten Supernatural Thrillers that are Also Great Detective Stories.” For more on crime fiction, see my post “Hard-Boiled Detectives: Unveiling Detective Fiction’s Thrilling Dark Influence.” Any good mystery draws the reader into a sinister puzzle (usually involving murder) while…
Modified March 25, 2025 Autistic characters—both in stories and real life—have always existed. What we now call autism has long been part of the human condition, even though medicine only began identifying the particular set of physical and mental traits associated with it within the last 100 years. This issue has special relevance to me….
Revised March 25, 2025 Women doctors now make up about 60 percent of practitioners under 35. The situation was very different in the past. No Women Doctors Need Apply In her book “Doctors Wanted, No Women Need Apply”: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975, Mary Roth Walsh recounts the terrible difficulty women faced in…